Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - At the Moulin Rouge. The Dance (c.1890) <--- HH

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This is the very first card that I've received from HH, and it happened to be a mirror card! (The dance hall of the cabaret had a few large mirrors decorating its walls; you can see the lamps reflected in them on this painting). I am not sure he understood it was 'the mirror card', though :) 


I eventually started to take pictures of such 'mirror cards' on a cutting mat, to immediately show their size:




The back side of the card:






The stamps used here are fairly remarkable. For instance, the one below was issued to commemorate the 1st (!) Anniversary of Japan's Admission into the United Nations in 1956:




The next one, from 1965, commemorates the International Co-operation Year (?!):




This stamp below was also issued in 1965, to commemorate the 25th International Maritime Day:


The last stamp on this postcard depicts the famous Senba Cliffs in the Muroto-Anan Kaigan Quasi-National (!)  Park:




Notice also a special stamp of the Narita Airport near Tokyo.